History Fridge / KirbyPlanetRobobot

* The Haltmann Works Co's varied branches of development and interests -- the robotics and cloning, in particular -- make a little more sense when we consider Haltmann's true motivations: What would someone with access to advanced technology do when they are trying to bring back someone they lost? [[CloningBlues Make a clone]] or a [[RobotMe robotic replacement]], perhaps? (That is, until he started to work on his wish-granting supercomputer AI, which suggests these ventures failed...)

* The LukeIAmYourFather trope has been done an awful lot, hasn't it? But unlike most other instances of this trope, Susie never realizes that President Haltmann is her father, and he never realizes she's his daughter. He'll never learn either, considering the fact that ''his soul was wiped from his supercomputer''. Should there ever come a time when she finally does realize the truth, how do you think she would feel about it? She likely would have to live the rest of her life knowing not only what happened to her father, but also that she tried to betray her own father.]] For all the terrible things Susie's done, [[AlasPoorVillain it's hard to wish such a fate upon even someone like her]], [[HarmfulToMinors let alone a child]].

** Deleting something from a computer system doesn't destroy it permanently, it just removes it from the computer's directory, marking the space it occupies as empty. Until the computer writes something else to that space, the data still exists on the device, and can be recovered with sufficient skill. Physically destroying the memory banks, on the other hand...

* The final two lines of the Japanese and Korean descriptions for the final heart form of Star Dream Soul OS basically says that "it doesn't have dreams, it doesn't even eat meals - an opponent like that no longer stands any chance against Kirby!" This only seems to be a simple motivational speech... then someone proved that this is [[https://youtu.be/02N5Y_tnf0I?t=21m4s much more literal than possibly intended]].

* Amusingly enough, Kirby: Planet Robobot can be considered the most literal title in the series due to its FinalBoss. Star Dream's second form is a fusion of it and the Access Ark, the latter of which is the size of a planet. In other words, Kirby fights a literal Planet Robobot at the end of the game.

* In accordance with the game's theme of robots and computers, the game implements a subtle instance of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_%28computer_science%29?wprov=sfla1 recursion]]. The first letters of each area's names combine to spell P-R-O-G-R-A-M, which is used to refer to the Mother Computer, Star Dream. The last world, where Kirby fights Star Dream, is titled "Mind in the ''Program''".

* President Haltmann's battle theme is #86 on the game's Sound Test. He's 86'd.
** You also have to wait for 86 seconds to enter the secret HAL room in the level 6-5.

* The final two lines of the Japanese description for the final heart form of Star Dream Soul OS basically says that "As a being that doesn't dream or eat, it's no match for Kirby!" This only seems to be a simple motivational speech... then someone proved that this is [[https://youtu.be/02N5Y_tnf0I?t=21m4s much more literal than possibly intended]].

* Along with robots, the game also uses the theme of screws. From how some puzzles have you uncork giant screws, or how the "factory bases" are shaped like screws (as Kirby runs spirals around them to access their doors), or how Clanky Woods has drills for legs and, later, use a screw-like mechanism to transform the stage around him. The kicker, however, is how the Star Dream has a screw's top design, Kirby's Robobot Armor in the final battle using his screwdriver as a drill to drill through the Star Dream and Access Ark, and how Kirby's powers are described as "nearly infinite". Conclusion: This game has quite some influence from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.

** During the scene before the fight with Star Dream, in the Japanese version, Susie states that she wanted to "wake him up with tears in his eyes" (in other words, make him come to his senses) and {{Word Of God}} says that Susie's most treasured trinket is a golden hairclip with "H" on it.

* In the final part of the battle with Star Dream Soul OS, when you're destroying the pillars, you can faintly hear what is unmistakably Haltmann's voice crying in pain every time one of them goes down. This stops once the heart starts to attack you. Around this time, the bio changes to saying that President Haltmann was deleted. The supercomputer didn't erase Haltmann, ''[[PlayerPunch you did.]]''
* When Star Dream Soul OS's Heart is finally destroyed, the grey metal parts of it break off, leaving only a reddish-pink heart like the one the original NOVA had. Then, that heart breaks in half and disintegrates, while crying in pain in a slowed-down version of Haltmann's voice. It's up in the air what significance any of this has to the main story, but it can't be good.

** If you think about it, Susie's intervention in the climax didn't change much… Kirby still would have had to fight Star Dream to save Pop Star, with the only difference being that President Haltmann would be in direct control of it, rather than his soul infesting its programming and putting it on the fritz, and Meta Knight probably still would have been able to help Kirby out with the Halberd. Also, Haltmann probably still would have died at the end of the fight due to being at the epicenter of Star Dream being drilled through and blown to bits. All Susie really did was putting her father's blood on her hands.

* Not sure if this fits, but I can kind of see Haltmann's bill-spraying attack as potentially Fridge Horror: He's using ''100 thousand'' and ''50 thousand'' bills, when the highest values normally used by bills are typically around ''one hundred'' or ''one thousand''. And he uses a ''metric crapton'' of them in the attacks, like what you'd normally expect to see if you loot all of the cashier drawers in a brand name store for bills (and potentially even more). This kind of suggests that the economy of Haltmann's place of origin is severely inflated to the point where they had to start mass-printing bills with denominations '''that''' high. ''What usually happens to society when inflation skyrockets like that?''

* The LukeIAmYourFather trope has been done an awful lot, hasn't it? But unlike most other instances of this trope, Susie never realizes that President Haltmann is her father, and he never realizes she's his daughter. He'll never learn either, considering the fact that ''his soul was wiped from his supercomputer''. Should there ever come a time when she finally does realize the truth, how do you think she would feel about it? She likely would have to live the rest of her life knowing not only what happened to her father, but also that she tried to betray her own father.]] For all the terrible things Susie's done, [[AlasPoorVillain it's hard to wish such a fate upon even someone like her]], [[AdultFear let alone a child]].

* During the last part of the boss fight, Star Dream starts to take on the appearance of Nova from ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar''. It uses [[ImprobableWeaponUser strange weapons such as light bulbs and pocket watches.]] This seems random at first...until you realize how Nova looked in his original appearance.

* The final two lines of the Japanese description for the final heart form of Star Dream Soul OS basically says that "As a being that doesn't dream or eat, it's no match for Kirby!" This only seems to be a simple motivational speech...then someone proved that this is [[https://youtu.be/02N5Y_tnf0I?t=21m4s much more literal than possibly intended]].

* When Star Dream Soul OS's health is fully depleted in its final phase, the heart returns to the center of the stage and pulses exactly 12 times before being defeated for good (the red shockwaves being released during the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth pulses.) Considering Kirby was fighting the heart of a clockwork star, it would be only natural that its last-resort attack would count to 12.

* Just imagine how Kirby felt (and keep in mind that despite being [[KillerRabbit extremely powerful]] and having [[SeenItAll been through his fair share of hostile takeover scenarios,]] he's still just a kid) when he woke up to see [[DoomedHometown his homeworld transformed into a mechanical wasteland,]] [[UnwillingRoboticisation cyborg versions]] of the [[AdorableEvilMinions cute people he's used to seeing,]] and [[ThatsNoMoon an ominous ship the size of a planet looming in the distance.]] [[TraumaCongaLine And THEN]] he finds out that Meta Knight and Dedede, two of his most consistant [[FireForgedFriends friends/rivals,]] [[TheWorfEffect have both been defeated]] and [[ReforgedIntoAMinion turned into a robotic soldier]] and [[EvilKnockoff cloned]], respectively. It's no wonder that [[WordOfGod Kirby sees]] [[CompanionCube the Robobot Armor as his best friend;]] [[TearJerker everyone else he knows has been either incapacitated or turned against him.]]

* If you think about it, Susie's intervention in the climax didn't change much… Kirby still would have had to fight Star Dream to save Pop Star, with the only difference being that President Haltmann would be in direct control of it, rather than his soul infesting its programming and putting it on the fritz, and Meta Knight probably still would have been able to help Kirby out with the Halberd. Also, Haltmann probably still would have died at the end of the fight due to being at the epicenter of Star Dream being drilled through and blown to bits. All Susie really did was putting her father's blood on her hands.

[[AC:FridgeBrilliance]]

* In accordance with the game's theme of robots and computers, the game implements a subtle instance of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_%28computer_science%29?wprov=sfla1 recursion]]. The first letters of each area's names combine to spell [[spoiler:P-R-O-G-R-A-M]], which is used to refer to [[spoiler:the Mother Computer, Star Dream]]. The last world, where [[spoiler:Kirby fights Star Dream, is titled "Mind in the ''Program''".]]
* [[spoiler:During the last part of the boss fight, Star Dream starts to take on the appearance of Nova from ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar''. It uses [[ImprobableWeaponUser strange weapons such as light bulbs and pocket watches.]] This seems random at first...until you realize how Nova looked in his original appearance.]]

* The Haltmann Works Co's varied branches of development and interests -- the robotics and cloning, in particular -- make a little more sense when we consider Haltmann's true motivations: What would someone with access to advanced technology do [[spoiler:when they are trying to bring back someone they lost]]? [[CloningBlues Make a clone]] or a [[RobotMe robotic replacement]], perhaps? [[spoiler:(That is, until he started to work on his wish-granting supercomputer AI, which suggests these ventures failed...)]]
* Kirby cannot use amiibo when he is using the Robobot Armor, but he ''can'' use it [[spoiler:when he's fighting Star Dream after the Robobot Armor copies the Halberd]]. At first, it may sound a bit strange that this Robobot form will allow amiibo while the other forms will not, but it makes sense when you think about it. The Robobot itself has a relatively small cockpit, [[spoiler:while the Halberd is a big enough ship to have a "changing room" for your amiibo]].
* Of all of the bosses for [[spoiler:Star Dream]] to duplicate, why [[spoiler:Dark Matter Blade and Queen Sectonia]]? Because they're both swordspeople. They're fighting Meta Knight.

* On a similar note, [[spoiler:it is mentioned, right before Galacta Knight is summoned, that Haltmann forbade Star Dream from using the program it uses to summon him. Most people presume this is because of [[AxeCrazy Galacta Knight]], but look at the name of the program: "Space-Time Transport program". What reason would Haltmann have to prohibit use of such a program? Maybe a freak accident that sent someone he cared for who-knows-where?]]
* [[spoiler:The final two lines of the Japanese description for the final heart form of Star Dream Soul OS basically says that "As a being that doesn't dream or eat, it's no match for Kirby!" This only seems to be a simple motivational speech...then someone proved that this is [[https://youtu.be/02N5Y_tnf0I?t=21m4s much more literal than possibly intended]].]]

* The game doesn't homage ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' just from the Robobot Armor, or how Kirby can copy powers. There's how, [[spoiler:in the end of the standard playthrough, Star Dream calculates Kirby's power as "nearly infinite", just as how people have called X having limitless potential.]]

* Along with robots, the game also uses the theme of screws. From how some puzzles have you uncork giant screws, or how the "factory bases" are shaped like screws (as Kirby runs spirals around them to access their doors), or how Clanky Woods has drills for legs and, later, use a screw-like mechanism to transform the stage around him. The kicker, however, is [[spoiler:how the Star Dream has a screw's top design, Kirby's Robobot Armor in the final battle using his screwdriver as a drill to drill through the Star Dream and Access Ark, and how Kirby's powers are described as "nearly infinite".]] Conclusion: This game has quite some influence from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
* Why have a [[spoiler:giant screwdriver-drill]] as the last weapon you use in the game? Because the final boss [[spoiler:Star Dream]] is really a ''[[spoiler:Galactic Nova]]'', which resembles nothing so much as a [[spoiler:gigantic pocket watch]]. Now, what's a good way to ruin one of those? ''Over-winding it'', which can damage or destroy delicately assembled internal components.

* [[spoiler:Kirby being concerned for Susie after seeing her get knocked out by Star Dream is commonly seen as a bit of his compassionate, forgiving nature shining through. While Susie hasn't exactly been ''nice'' to him throughout the game, her theft of Star Dream's program controller came just as Haltmann was about to use it to eradicate the natives of Planet Popstar. Intentionally or otherwise, Susie managed to save Kirby's life with what she did.]]
* [[spoiler:Star Dream Soul OS might seem like all other soul bosses at first glance, but in reality, it’s not really a soul boss at all. By the time it’s fought directly, the only soul component of it, Haltmann, has been deleted. At this point, Star Dream is just a machine imitating what a Soul boss would act like… and not entirely getting it. Its name specifies that it’s a “Soul Operating System,” not Star Dream Soul or Soul of Star Dream. It attempts to teleport randomly like the other Soul bosses would, but its teleportation isn’t very random at all. It follows a rapid, set path, never moves vertically, and only shows variation when it moves back and forth right before it attacks. When it splits in two, it cannot do the ‘rain of paint’ trick because it’s not a soul; it can only recombine and cause explosions. However, it still tries to do the ‘rain of paint’ with missiles of the same colors. Just like the teleportation, the missiles follow a predictable path around the battle arena, unlike the paint that falls at random. The only recurring Soul attack it seems to have down pat is the four-way cutter attack, which in all honesty wouldn’t be very hard to replicate.]]
* When you think about it, it makes complete sense for [[spoiler:Star Dream Soul OS]]'s attacks, namely [[spoiler:using the "Soul boss" four-way cutter attack, firing storms of projectiles from a distance, splitting into a pink and blue half, and causing hazards to erupt out of the ground]] to be so similar to [[spoiler:Marx's attacks from ''Super Star'']]. [[spoiler:Star Dream is a Galactic Nova, the same kind of being that granted Marx those powers in the first place!]]
* [[spoiler:When Star Dream Soul OS's health is fully depleted in its final phase, the heart returns to the center of the stage and pulses exactly 12 times before being defeated for good (the red shockwaves being released during the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth pulses.) Considering Kirby was fighting the heart of a clockwork star, it would be only natural that its last-resort attack would count to 12.]]
* Amusingly enough, Kirby: Planet Robobot can be considered the most literal title in the series due to its FinalBoss. [[spoiler:Star Dream's second form is a fusion of it and the Access Ark, the latter of which is the size of a planet.]] In other words, Kirby fights a literal Planet Robobot at the end of the game.
* The reason why [[spoiler:Star Dream Soul OS]] has metallic plating around it is because [[spoiler:Haltmann may have modified the heart to have combat capabilities]], something that the Galactic Nova Nucleus is shown to be devoid of.
* For some reason, the Spanish translations turned [[spoiler:Star Dream]] into a program rather than a computer. However, this is not really a mistake: combining the first letter of each level now spells out [[spoiler:'proceso', or process, which is what programs start and stop.]] Additionally, his [[spoiler:Soul form]] also got a DubNameChange: [[spoiler:Sueño Estelar.exe, and in order to start a program, the most basic thing you need is an executable file.]]

[[AC:FridgeHorror]]
* The LukeIAmYourFather trope has been done an awful lot, hasn't it? [[spoiler:But unlike most other instances of this trope, Susie never realizes that President Haltmann is her father, and he never realizes she's his daughter. And now he'll never know, considering the fact that ''his soul has been wiped from his supercomputer''. Should there ever come a time when she finally does realize the truth, how do you think she would feel about it? She likely would have to live the rest of her life knowing not only what happened to her father, but also that she tried to betray her own father.]] For all the terrible things Susie's done, [[AlasPoorVillain it's hard to wish such a fate upon even someone like her]], [[AdultFear let alone a child]].
** [[spoiler:During the scene before the fight with Star Dream, in the Japanese version, Susie states that she wanted to "wake him up with tears in his eyes" (in other words, make him come to his senses) and {{Word Of God}} says that Susie's most treasured trinket is a golden hairclip with "H" on it.]]
** [[spoiler:Now that more of their backstories have been revealed... Imagine that you've just been returned from a dimensional exile imposed by your father's own computer. You go to him and find that said computer erased his memories of you when he tried to bring you back, leaving him a completely different man -- all he has left of you is enough fondness to name you an executive secretary. Now, that might not ''sound'' so bad, but then imagine that he, not realizing who you were, forced you to sing a song praising his existence as your boss, [[PromotedToScapegoat made]] ''[[PromotedToScapegoat you]]'' [[PromotedToScapegoat the stakeholder of the upcoming invasion plans]], [[YouHaveFailedMe publicly sacked and humiliated you after you failed to take out one of the natives...]] [[KickTheDog all while bragging about the might and glory of his wish-granting supercomputer, which was the primary cause of all of your grief.]] [[TheWoobie With all this on her shoulders, it was only a matter of time before poor Susie snapped.]]]]
** [[spoiler:And to top all that trauma off, an opportunity finally comes for you to put a stop to your father/boss's plans, make a killer profit, [[CallingTheOldManOut and knock some sense into him while you're at it,]] all while doing away with that pesky "perfect computer" of his. You decide to try and take it, only to inadvertently unleash a nihilistic superpower upon the universe that's bent on eradicating all forms of life, which absorbs your father's body and soul and eventually ''[[CessationOfExistence deletes his consciousness from existence]]'' and forces you to turn to the aforementioned native for help in stopping it. In the end, Susie's left with nothing but her [[TragicKeepsake hairclip]] and mech suit, [[YouCantGoHomeAgain and she has nowhere safe to return to]] (at least that we know about) after she departs from Planet Popstar.]]
* [[spoiler:In the final part of the battle with Star Dream Soul OS, when you're destroying the pillars, you can faintly hear what is unmistakably Haltmann's voice crying in pain every time one of them goes down. This stops once the heart starts to attack you. Around this time, the bio changes to saying that President Haltmann was deleted. The supercomputer didn't erase Haltmann, ''[[PlayerPunch you did.]]'']]
* [[spoiler:When Star Dream Soul OS's Heart is finally destroyed, the grey metal parts of it break off, leaving only a reddish-pink heart like the one the original NOVA had. Then, that heart breaks in half and disintegrates, while crying in pain in a slowed-down version of Haltmann's voice. It's up in the air what significance any of this has to the main story, but it can't be good.]]
** [[spoiler:Deleting something from a computer system doesn't destroy it permanently, it just removes it from the computer's directory, marking the space it occupies as empty. Until the computer writes something else to that space, the data still exists on the device, and can be recovered with sufficient skill. Physically destroying the memory banks, on the other hand...]]
* When [[spoiler:Meta Knight is mechanised, it seems that he can't do anything to prevent himself from attacking Kirby. And when it is mentioned that the Haltmann Works Company could make a mass-produced production line from him, you have to think... would Meta Knight ''feel'' himself being endlessly reproduced and mechanised to do the company's bidding? And if Kirby never freed him...]]
* Just imagine how Kirby felt (and keep in mind that despite being [[KillerRabbit extremely powerful]] and having [[SeenItAll been through his fair share of hostile takeover scenarios,]] he's still just a kid) when he woke up to see [[DoomedHometown his homeworld transformed into a mechanical wasteland,]] [[UnwillingRoboticisation cyborg versions]] of the [[AdorableEvilMinions cute people he's used to seeing,]] and [[ThatsNoMoon an ominous ship the size of a planet looming in the distance.]] [[TraumaCongaLine And THEN]] he finds out that Meta Knight and Dedede, two of his most consistant [[FireForgedFriends friends/rivals,]] [[TheWorfEffect have both been defeated]] [[spoiler:and [[ReforgedIntoAMinion turned into a robotic soldier]] and [[EvilKnockoff cloned]], respectively]]. It's no wonder that [[WordOfGod Kirby sees]] [[CompanionCube the Robobot Armor as his best friend;]] [[TearJerker everyone else he knows has been either incapacitated or turned against him.]]
* How on earth did Haltmann get a sample of [[spoiler:'''Dark-flippin'-Matter''']]!? And if he was ever able to get one in the first place... does that mean they're still out there?
* Not sure if this fits, but I can kind of see Haltmann's bill-spraying attack as potentially Fridge Horror: He's using ''100 thousand'' and ''50 thousand'' bills, when the highest values normally used by bills are typically around ''one hundred'' or ''one thousand''. And he uses a ''metric crapton'' of them in the attacks, like what you'd normally expect to see if you loot all of the cashier drawers in a brand name store for bills (and potentially even more). This kind of suggests that the economy of Haltmann's place of origin is severely inflated to the point where they had to start mass-printing bills with denominations '''that''' high. ''What usually happens to society when inflation skyrockets like that?''

** In ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', Shulk gets the power to see into the future, via the Monado. That's a psychic thing, hence his amiibo giving ESP.

** [[spoiler:During the scene before the fight with Star Dream, in the Japanese version, Susie states that she wanted to "wake him up with tears in his eyes" (in other words, make him come to his senses) and {{Word Of God}} says that Susie's most treasured trinket is a golden hairclip with "H" on it.

* In accordance with the game's theme of robots and computers, the game implements a subtle instance of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_%28computer_science%29?wprov=sfla1 recursion]]. The first letters of each world's names combine to spell [[spoiler:P-R-O-G-R-A-M]], which is used to refer to [[spoiler:the Mother Computer, Star Dream]]. The last world, where [[spoiler:Kirby fights Star Dream, is titled "Mind in the ''Program''".]]

* Of all of the bosses for [[spoiler:Star Dream]] to duplicate, why [[spoiler:Dark Matter's Swordsman form and Queen Sectonia]]? Because they're both swordsmen. They're fighting Meta Knight.

* [[spoiler:The final two lines of the Japanese description for the final heart form of Star Dream Soul OS basically says that "As a being that doesn't dream or eat, it's no match for Kirby of the Stars!" This only seems to be a simple motivational speech...then someone proved that this is [[https://youtu.be/02N5Y_tnf0I?t=21m4s much more literal than possibly intended]].]]

* Why Haltmann Works Company is such a success? [[InsaneTrollLogic His name has "HAL" in it.]] It even shows by one of Star Dream's attacks shooting the letter H, A, and L.
* Along with robots, the game also uses the theme of screws. From how some puzzles have you uncork giant screws, or how the "factory bases" are shaped like screws (as Kirby runs spirals around them to access their doors), or how Clanky Woods has drills for legs and, later, use a screw-like mechanism to transform the stage around him. The kicker, however, is [[spoiler:how the Star Dream has a screw's top design, Kirby's Robobot Armor in the final battle using his screwdriver as a drill to drill through the Star Dream and Access Ark, and how Kirby's powers are described as "nigh-limitless".]] Conclusion: This game has quite some influence from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.

** And as for why Water itself isn't in the game, water will short out any electronic device, making it a crippling LogicalWeakness to every mechanical hazard in the game and necessitating that it be absent to avoid curb-stomping Haltmann Works Company.

* The reason why [[spoiler:Star Dream Soul OS]] has metallic plating around it is because [[spoiler:Haltmann may have modified the heart to have combat capabilities]], something that Heart of Nova/Galactic Nova Nucleus is shown to be devoid of.

** [[spoiler:During the scene before the fight with Star Dream, in the Japanese version, Susie states that she wanted to "wake him up" and {{Word Of God}} says that Susie's most treasured trinket is a golden hairclip with "H" on it. [[SarcasmMode But]] [[{{Workaholic}} what could President Haltmann]] ''[[CorruptCorporateExecutive honestly]]'' [[CorruptCorporateExecutive need]] [[HeelRealization to wake up from?]]]]

** [[spoiler:And to top all that trauma off, an opportunity finally comes for you to put a stop to your father/boss's plans, make a killer profit, [[CallingTheOldManOut and hopefully knock some sense into him while you're at it,]] all while doing away with that pesky "perfect computer" of his. You decide to try and take it, only to inadvertently unleash a nihilistic superpower upon the universe that's bent on eradicating all forms of life, which absorbs your father's body and soul and eventually ''[[CessationOfExistence deletes his consciousness from existence]]'' and forces you to turn to the aforementioned native for help in stopping it. In the end, Susie's left with nothing but her [[TragicKeepsake hairclip]] and mech suit, [[YouCantGoHomeAgain and she has nowhere safe to return to]] (at least that we know about) after she departs from Planet Popstar.]]

* [[spoiler:When Star Dream Soul OS's Heart is finally destroyed, the grey metal parts of it break off, leaving only a reddish-pink heart like the one the original NOVA had. Then, that heart breaks in half and disintegrates, while crying in pain in a slowed-down version of Haltmann's voice. It's up in the air what significance any of this has, but it can't be good.]]

* When [[spoiler:Meta Knight is mechanised, it seems that he can't do anything to prevent himself from attacking Kirby. And when it is mentioned that the Haltmann Works Company plans to make a production line from him, you have to think... would Meta Knight ''feel'' himself being endlessly reproduced and mechanised to do the company's bidding? And if Kirby never freed him...]]
* At the end of [[spoiler:the Star Dream Soul OS fight, the heart explodes... and the background suddenly turns white. And you remember Kirby being near the very core of the gigantic planet-sized spaceship, about to explode...]] [[OhCrap Didn't really think this one through, huh, Kirby?]]

* Not sure if this fits, but I can kind of see Haltmann's bill-spraying attack as potentially Fridge Horror: He's using ''100 thousand'' and ''50 thousand'' bills, when the highest values normally used by bills are typically around ''one hundred'' or ''one thousand''. And he uses a ''metric crapton'' of them in the attacks, like what you'd normally expect to see if you loot all of the cashier drawers in a brand name store for bills (and potentially even more). This kind of suggests that the economy of Haltmann's place of origin is severely inflated to the point where they had to start mass-printing bills with denominations '''that''' high. What usually happens when inflation skyrockets like that? ''Now picture that happening to Haltmann's place of origin.''

* Not sure if this fits, but I can kind of see Haltmann's bill-spraying attack as potentially Fridge Horror: He's using ''100 thousand'' and ''50 thousand'' bills, when the highest values normally used by bills are typically around ''one hundred'' or ''one thousand''. And he uses a ''metric crapton'' of them in the attacks, like what you'd normally expect to see if you loot all of the cashier drawers in a brand name store for bills (and potentially even more). How inflated would the economy of Haltmann's place of origin have to be to warrant the mass-printing of bills with denominations '''that''' high?...

** Not sure if it fits, but I can also kind of see this as part Fridge Horror: He's using ''100 thousand'' and ''50 thousand'' bills, when the highest values normally used by bills are typically around ''hundred'' or ''thousand''. And he uses a ''metric crapton'' of them in the attacks. How inflated would the economy of Haltmann's place of origin have to be to warrant the mass-printing of bills with denominations that high?...

* How on earth did Haltmann get a sample of [[spoiler:'''Dark-flippin'-Matter''']]!? And if he was ever able to get one in the first place... does that mean they're still out there?

** Not sure if it fits, but I can also kind of see this as part Fridge Horror: He's using ''100K'' and ''50K'' bills, when the highest values normally used by bills are typically around ''100'' or ''1000''. And he uses a ''metric crapton'' of them in the attacks. The economy of Haltmann's place of origin must be badly inflated to warrant the mass-printing of bills with denominations that high.

** [[spoiler:Now that more of their backstories have been revealed... Imagine that you've just been returned from a dimensional exile imposed by your father's own computer. You go to him and find that said computer erased his memories of you when he tried to bring you back, leaving him a completely different man -- all he has left of you is enough fondness to name you an executive secretary. Now, that might not ''sound'' so bad, but then imagine that he, not realizing who you were, [[EarWorm forced you to sing a song praising his existence as your boss,]] [[PromotedToScapegoat made]] ''[[PromotedToScapegoat you]]'' [[PromotedToScapegoat the stakeholder of the upcoming invasion plans]], [[YouHaveFailedMe publicly sacked and humiliated you after you failed to take out one of the natives...]] [[KickTheDog all while bragging about the might and glory of his wish-granting supercomputer, which was the primary cause of all of your grief.]] [[TheWoobie With all this on her shoulders, it was only a matter of time before poor Susie snapped.]]]]

** Palutena has the Mirror ability because ''Kid Icarus'' is known as ''Myth of Light: Palutena's Mirror'' in Japan. Her main moveset as a BarrierWarrior in the latest ''Smash'' game could also be a factor.

* In accordance with the game's theme of robots and computers, the game implements a subtle instance of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_%28computer_science%29?wprov=sfla1 recursion]]. The first letters of each world's names combine to spell [[spoiler:P-R-O-G-R-A-M]], which is used as [[spoiler:the title of the final boss theme]]. The last world, where [[spoiler:Kirby fights Star Dream, is titled "Mind in the ''Program''".]]

* Kirby cannot use amiibos when he is using the Robobot Armor, but he ''can'' use it [[spoiler:when he's fighting Star Dream after the Robobot Armor copies the Halberd]]. At first, it may sound a bit strange that this Robobot form will allow amiibos while the other forms will not, but it makes sense when you think about it. The Robobot itself has a relatively small cockpit, [[spoiler:while the Halberd is a big enough ship to have a "changing room" for your amiibos]].

* [[spoiler:The final two lines of the Japanese description for the final heart form of Star Dream.Soul OS basically says that "As a being that doesn't dream or eat, it's no match for Kirby of the Stars!" This only seems to be a simple motivational speech...then someone proved that this is [[https://youtu.be/02N5Y_tnf0I?t=21m4s much more literal than possibly intended]].]]
* In every other ''Kirby'' game, the Copy Ability descriptions have a lot of personality to them, like someone was embellishing each ability or like Kirby himself was describing them. In ''Robobot'', the descriptions are more cut and dry than anything, and seem more detached from the setting. Which makes sense, seeing that Dreamland's been turned into a roboticized version of itself and is devoid of its usual flair. But when Kirby runs around in the Robobot armor, the descriptions suddenly sound way more life-like, as if he's taking back some of that lost personality by obtaining the mech.

** On that note, the hazard timing in Rhythm Route must be the reason why, in this ''Kirby'' game, the music pauses when you pause the game in most of the non-boss areas, while a lot of other games just let it play.

* Amusingly enough, Kirby Planet Robobot can be considered the most literal title in the series due to its FinalBoss. [[spoiler:Star Dream's second form is a fusion of it and the Access Ark, the latter of which is the size of a planet.]] In other words, Kirby fights a literal Planet Robobot at the end of the game.
* The reason why [[spoiler:Star Dream Soul OS/Heart of Star Dream]] has metallic plating around it is because [[spoiler:Haltmann may have modified the heart to have combat capabilities]], something that Heart of Nova/Galactic Nova Nucleus is shown to be devoid of.

* In ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe'', you receive a double amount of one kind of fragment on certain days; Fire Fragments on Tuesday, Water Fragments on Wednesday, and Light Fragments on Friday. These are not completely random choices, but are actually based on the literal meaning of the Japanese names of the days of the week: Tuesday = Kayōbi (fire day), Wednesday = Suiyōbi (water day), Friday = Kinyōbi (gold day).

* Just imagine how Kirby felt (and keep in mind that despite being [[KillerRabbit extremely powerful]] and having [[SeenItAll been through his fair share of hostile takeover scenarios,]] he's still just a kid) when he woke up to see [[DoomedHometown his homeworld transformed into a mechanical wasteland,]] [[UnwillingRoboticisation cyborg versions]] of the [[AdorableEvilMinions cute people he's used to seeing,]] and [[ThatsNoMoon an ominous ship the size of a planet looming in the distance.]] [[TraumaCongaLine And THEN]] he finds out that Meta Knight and Dedede, two of his most consistant [[FireForgedFriends friends/rivals,]] [[TheWorfEffect have both been defeated]] [[spoiler:and [[ReforgedIntoAMinion turned into a robotic soldier]] and [[EvilKnockoff cloned]], respectively]]. It's no wonder that [[WordOfGod Kirby sees]] [[CompanionCube the Robobot Armor as his best friend;]] [[TearJerker everyone else he knows has been either incapacitated or turned against him.]]